delegate count

Bill Clinton headed into what proved
to be the last 3 weeks of the nomination
campaign in good shape.

Clinton had started piling up
delegates in the '92 version
of Super Tuesday

And won big in Illinois March 17th.

Took a punch in Connecticut.

Ended it in a "bitterly contested"
New York primary.

March 17,1992

Michigan primary
Brown surprisingly strong
Tsongas suspends campaign

Michigan results
Clinton-48%
Brown-28%
Tsongas-18%

March 24,1992

Connecticut primary
Draft Tsongas movement springs up
Brown pulls upset

Connecticut results
Brown-37%
Clinton-36%
Tsongas-20%

April 7,1992

Interesting stuff watching the Hillary supporters parse yesterday's primary results. Some of it is factual, some of it is stretching the truth and some of it is just plain not true.

Clinton overwhelmingly won Kentucky, but the Kentucky pledged delegate count for Obama gave him the majority. In plain speak, Kentucky won it for Obama.

Obama won Oregon, an overwhelmingly white working class state

The contest continues, but barely. Only Clinton's personal ambition, Limbaugh's Operation Chaos tomfoolery, and Obama's own political liabilities and weaknesses, enable this lopsided boxing match to continue until the 10th and final round.

Regarding Tuesday's Democrat primaries in North Carolina and Indiana: Barack Obama won another state in which he has virtually chance to defeat John McCain to win in November, while Hilary Clinton wins another swing state. North Carolina was won twice by Reagan, twice by the first George Bush, twice by the second George Bush, and even by Bob Dole in 1996.

Summary: Guests include Congressman Jim “Coop” Cooper of Tennessee’s Fightin’ 5th!, Rachel Smolker, a research biologist at the Global Justice

As you probably know by now, unless you never lsten to the news, Senator Clinton won the Pennsylvania primary last night by a 10% margin. In the delegate count, Senator Obama still has a lead and he still leads in the popular vote.

Hillary Clinton has won the Pennsylvania Primary by ten points, a margin many analysts said she needed to maintain an outside chance at winning the nomination. Here’s what local bloggers are saying about it:

Silence is Golden:

Clinton, as of the Little Dork’s bedtime, is up 10% (9.5 according to Field hands). Pat Buchannan is on MSNBC curiously claiming that Clinton has “momentum in her favor.” Despite the near mathematical impossibility of her winning, and perhaps much to the pleasure of the press corps, we continue to call this a contest.